Routing for communities Routing For Communities

We’ve reached the last episode of our season together. And the story in it will inspire you, while showing how community networks are essential and possible when different people get involved. For that, we’ll travel to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, to meet James Nguo from the Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN), which works especially with the country’s rural population. This initiative shows how education, environmental justice and connectivity can be linked. 

You will also get to know Kathleen Diga, speaking straight from Durban, in South Africa. She works for the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and is the co-lead for the Local Networks initiative. 

“Routing for Communities” is a 12-episode podcast. Here you will listen to the life stories of people who are connecting themselves while defending the well-being of their communities. 

>>> Read the transcript of the episode: https://routingforcommunities.apc.org 

ALIN: https://alin.net/ 

Licensing and Shared Spectrum Framework for Community Networks in Kenya:    https://repository.ca.go.ke/handle/123456789/47 

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Credits

This podcast is an initiative from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Rhizomatica, produced by Rádio Tertúlia. Script and production: Vivian Fernandes. Presentation: Renata Porto. Editing and sound: Beatriz Pasqualino. Coordination: Beatriz Pasqualino and Débora Prado. Consulting board: Bruna Zanolli, Cynthia El Khoury, Daniela Bello, Flavia Fascendini, Kathleen Diga ​​​​and Nils Brock. Translation: Thiago Moyano. Illustrations: Gustavo Nascimento. Web design: Avi Nash and Cathy Cheon. 

This production was supported by the “Connecting the Unconnected: Supporting community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives” project with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); and also by the project “Supporting Community-led Approaches to Addressing the Digital Divide” with support from the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme.

The story you’ll hear in the 11th episode of our season takes place in Thailand. We are going to learn about Professor Kanchaná Kanchanásut’s pioneering venture, which took the internet to this Southeast Asian country. Nowadays, she is in charge of TakNet, Thailand’s first community network, which connects around 500 homes in 30 communities to broadband.

Still in Asia, this time in the Philippines, we talked to John Garrity, a Filipino-American who works as policy advisor and chief of party for the USAID – Better Access and Connectivity project in this country. His work focuses on inclusive growth and policies to reduce poverty, mainly via the implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs). 

“Routing for Communities” is a 12-episode podcast. Here you will listen to the life stories of people who have come up with alternatives to overcome the challenges of digital inclusion in remote, rural and urban areas across the globe.

>>> Read the transcript of the episode: https://routingforcommunities.apc.org 

TakNet: https://giswatch.org/node/6043 

Net2Home: http://net2home.co.th/ 

IntERLab´s research: http://dumbo-technology.interlab.ait.asia/ 

USAID BEACON project: https://www.nathaninc.com/beacon/ 

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Credits

This podcast is an initiative from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Rhizomatica, produced by Rádio Tertúlia. Script and production: Vivian Fernandes. Presentation: Renata Porto. Editing and sound: Beatriz Pasqualino. Coordination: Beatriz Pasqualino and Débora Prado. Consulting board: Bruna Zanolli, Cynthia El Khoury, Daniela Bello, Flavia Fascendini, Kathleen Diga ​​​​and Nils Brock. Translation: Thiago Moyano. Illustrations: Gustavo Nascimento. Web design: Avi Nash and Cathy Chen. 

This production was supported by the “Connecting the Unconnected: Supporting community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives” project with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); and also by the project “Supporting Community-led Approaches to Addressing the Digital Divide” with support from the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme.

For this season’s 10th episode, you will get to know more about another story from Latin America. We’re talking about an experience in the countryside of Colombia, in an Indigenous community, where the Jxa'h Wejxia Casil Community Network is operating. To tell you more about this story, we talked to Edinson Camayo. He is a member of the Nasa Indigenous Nation and the project’s coordinator.

You will also travel with us to Mexico, where our team interviewed Adriana Labardini Inzunza. She is the policy coordinator for Latin American and the Caribbean at the Local Networks initiative. For many years, Adriana has analysed the role that regulators and policy makers have in increasing people’s well-being through access to information and communications technologies (ICTs) to promote human rights. 

“Routing for Communities” is a 12-episode podcast. Here you will listen to the life stories of people who have come up with alternatives to overcome the challenges of digital inclusion in remote, rural and urban areas across the globe.

>>> Read the transcript of the episode: https://routingforcommunities.apc.org 

Jxa'h Wejxia Casil Community Network: https://redescomunitarias.co/es/jxa-h-wejxia-casil 

Colnodo: https://www.colnodo.apc.org 

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Credits

This podcast is an initiative from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Rhizomatica, produced by Rádio Tertúlia. Script, production and voiceover: Vivian Fernandes. Presentation: Renata Porto. Editing, voiceover and sound: Beatriz Pasqualino. Coordination: Beatriz Pasqualino and Débora Prado. Consulting board: Bruna Zanolli, Cynthia El Khoury, Daniela Bello, Flavia Fascendini, Kathleen Diga ​​​​and Nils Brock. Translation: Thiago Moyano. Illustrations: Gustavo Nascimento. Web design: Avi Nash and Cathy Chen. 

This production was supported by the “Connecting the Unconnected: Supporting community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives” project with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); and also by the project “Supporting Community-led Approaches to Addressing the Digital Divide” with support from the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme.

In our ninth episode, you’ll get to know an initiative that has already connected over 7,000 homes in England’s northwestern rural areas to the internet: the Broadband for the Rural North project, more commonly known as B4RN. To tell us this story, we interviewed Chris Conder, one of B4RN’s founders who was once recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for her work in taking internet connection to rural communities.

You will also get to know Steve Song, an expert in the realm of community networks. He is a researcher and consultant on technologies that enable wider access to the internet, especially in African countries and other emerging regions. We talked to him about the challenges faced by community networks in terms of sustainability.

“Routing for Communities” is a 12-episode podcast. Here you will listen to the life stories of people who have come up with alternatives to overcome the challenges of digital inclusion in remote, rural and urban areas across the globe.

>>> Read the transcript of the episode: https://routingforcommunities.apc.org 

B4RN: https://b4rn.org.uk 

Steve Song’s blog: https://manypossibilities.net/2023/01/a-game-of-stones 

Research “Financing mechanisms for locally owned internet infrastructure”:  https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/financing-mechanisms-locally-owned-internet-infrastructure 

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Credits

This podcast is an initiative from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Rhizomatica, produced by Rádio Tertúlia. Script and production: Vivian Fernandes. Presentation: Renata Porto. Editing and sound: Beatriz Pasqualino. Coordination: Beatriz Pasqualino and Débora Prado. Consulting board: Bruna Zanolli, Cynthia El Khoury, Daniela Bello, Flavia Fascendini, Kathleen Diga ​​​​and Nils Brock. Translation: Thiago Moyano. Illustrations: Gustavo Nascimento. Web design: Avi Nash and Cathy Chen. 

This production was supported by the “Connecting the Unconnected: Supporting community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives” project with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); and also by the project “Supporting Community-led Approaches to Addressing the Digital Divide” with support from the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme.

In our eighth episode, we will travel to the African continent once again! In Nigeria, we will meet Harira Wakili and the Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) – a non-profit organisation promoting democracy and citizenship through information and communications technologies. We will learn more about their work on community networks and gender issues.

We will also hear from Josephine Miliza, who lives in Kenya. She is the current Africa Policy coordinator at the Local Networks initiative, which aims to contribute to an enabling ecosystem for the emergence and growth of community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives.

“Routing for Communities” is a 12-episode podcast. Here you will listen to the life stories of people who have come up with alternatives to overcome the challenges of digital inclusion in remote, rural and urban areas across the globe.

>>> Read the transcript of the episode: https://routingforcommunities.apc.org 

CITAD: https://www.citad.org 

SPACE programme: https://www.apc.org/en/news/space-mentorship-programme-addressing-gendered-experiences-access-policy-and-regulation 

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Credits

This podcast is an initiative from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Rhizomatica, produced by Rádio Tertúlia. Script and production: Vivian Fernandes. Presentation: Renata Porto. Editing: Beatriz Pasqualino. Sound: Lua Gatinoni. Coordination: Beatriz Pasqualino and Débora Prado. Consulting Board: Bruna Zanolli, Cynthia El Khoury, Daniela Bello, Flavia Fascendini, Kathleen Diga ​​​​and Nils Brock. Translation: Thiago Moyano. Illustrations: Gustavo Nascimento. Webdesign: Avi Nash and Cathy Chen. 

This production was supported by the “Connecting the Unconnected: Supporting community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives” project with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); and also by the project “Supporting Community-led Approaches to Addressing the Digital Divide” with support from the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme.

Welcome to Brazil! In the seventh episode of our season, we share a story from São Paulo, the largest city by population in the country and South America. We talked to Daiane Araújo and learned more about her experience at “Casa dos Meninos”, an initiative working on information and communication technologies with the youth on the city outskirts. She works on community networks projects and reflects on their intersection with gender, race and class.

We also traveled to a small Brazilian town called Monteiro Lobato, where Luísa Bagope lives. She is one of the creators of the project “Nodes that Bond”, which focuses on gender and feminist issues. 

“Routing for Communities” is a 12-episode podcast. Here you will be able to listen to the life stories of people connecting themselves while defending the rights and well-being of their communities.

>>> Read the transcript of the episode: https://routingforcommunities.apc.org 

Casa dos Meninos: https://www.casadosmeninos.org.br 

Nós por Nós: https://portalsemporteiras.github.io/nos-por-nos 

Their book about the women circles methodology: https://portalsemporteiras.github.io/en/assets/documentos/book-nodes-that-bond.pdf 

Article on popular education written by Daiane Araújo:

https://www.genderit.org/feminist-talk/contribution-bell-hooks-and-paulo-freire-construction-community-networks

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Credits

This podcast is an initiative from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Rhizomatica, produced by Rádio Tertúlia. Script, production and voiceover: Vivian Fernandes. Presentation: Renata Porto. Editing and voiceover: Beatriz Pasqualino. Sound: Lua Gatinoni. Coordination: Beatriz Pasqualino and Débora Prado. Consulting Board: Bruna Zanolli, Cynthia El Khoury, Daniela Bello, Flavia Fascendini, Kathleen Diga ​​​​and Nils Brock. Translation: Thiago Moyano. Illustrations: Gustavo Nascimento. Webdesign: Avi Nash and Cathy Chen. 

This production was supported by the “Connecting the Unconnected: Supporting community networks and other community-based connectivity initiatives” project with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); and also by the project “Supporting Community-led Approaches to Addressing the Digital Divide” with support from the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme.